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THE 



STATUTES AND LAWS 



OF THE 



UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE 



WITH THE 



ORDERS AND REGULATIONS 



THE FACULTY. 



CAMBRIDGE: 
METCALF AND COMPANY, 

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 

1848. 



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UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE, 



AS REVISED AND ADOPTED BY THE CORPORATION 
ON THE 10th OF JUNE, 



CONCURRED IN BY THE OVERSEERS ON THE 
17th OF SEPTEMBER, 1848. 



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PREFACE 



The last general revision of the Laws of the University 
took place in 1S25, after a very protracted and laborious ex- 
amination. On this occasion many important changes were 
made in the laws, of which an edition, as revised, was pub- 
lished in that year. Another edition, with some slight changes, 
was published in 1826, and still another in 1828. Since then 
there has been no publication of all the laws of the University, 
and they may be considered, at this time, as out of print. 

On the 17th May, 1832, President Quincy informed the 
Corporation that " a new edition of the statutes and laws 
would be requisite, and suggested the expediency of a new 
arrangement of the laws, and some modifications of them ; 

" Whereupon, it was voted, that 

" The President be a committee for the above purpose." 

On the 19th July, President Quincy reported a selection 
from the general laws, under the title of " Statutes and Laws of 
/ Harvard University relative to Undergraduates"; which was 
read and adopted by the Corporation on the same day. Such 
portions of the previously existing laws as were deemed to re- 
late to the same matters were at the same time repealed. On 
the same day (19th July, 1832) the newly adopted code of 
laws was laid before the Overseers and referred to a committee 
of that body, with instructions to report at the next meeting. 
At that meeting (23d August, 1832), no report having been 
made by the Committee, they were discharged from the farther 
consideration of the subject; and the Revised Statutes and Laws 
as adopted by the Corporation were concurred in, with one 
slight amendment, by the Overseers. 



To this selection of laws and statutes relating to under- 
graduates, thus adopted by the Corporation and Overseers, were 
subsequently added the " Orders and Regulations of the Faculty 
of Harvard College," forming together the pamphlet edition of 
the Laws, placed in the hands of students when admitted to 
the College. This pamphlet has been more than once reprinted. 
The last edition of the 6rst portion — that is, " The Laws of 
Harvard University relative to Undergraduates " — bears date in 
1845 ; and the last edition of the "Orders and Regulations of 
the Faculty of Harvard College " bears date in 1847. 

The selection above described, and the repeal of a consider- 
able part of the laws previously existing, seemed to render a 
revision and a republication of the residue necessary. According- 
ly, on the 19th June, 1834, it was voted by the Corporation, 
that " the President be authorized to have printed those College 
laws which do not relate particularly to Undergraduates." In 
pursuance of this authority, a pamphlet was prepared by Presi- 
dent Quincy, and printed in 1834, under the title of " Statutes 
and Laws of the University in Cambridge, Massachusetts." 

This collection was a revision as well as a selection of the 
laws, and consequently required for its adoption the action of 
the two boards of the College Government. It does not ap- 
pear whether it was adopted by the Corporation. It was never 
submitted to the Overseers, and only those portions of it, there- 
fore, possess the force of law which belong to the body of laws 
as previously existing. This pamphlet, though printed, was 
never published. 

Nothing farther was done for several years in reference to a 
revision of the laws. At length, on the 12th September, 1846, 
the President was requested, by a vote of the Corporation, " to 
consider and ascertain the present state of the College laws, 
and to make report." This vote of the Corporation was un- 
derstood to contemplate a complete revision of the statutes and 
laws of the University. 

In pursuance of this order, on the 27th of November of the 
last year, a revised code of laws was reported by the President 
to the Corporation, and by them ordered to be privately printed, 
with a view to its consideration by the two Boards. At the 
following meeting, on the 27th of December, it was laid before 
the Corporation in a printed form. It was ordered by the Cor- 
poration at the same time, that a printed copy should be fur- 
nished to each member of the College Faculty and to the 
Faculty of each Professional School, with the request that they 



would submit to the Corporation in writing such remarks as they 
might think proper to make on any part of the proposed code. 

On the 15th of January of the present year, the revised 
code, as reported by the President, was, in connection with the 
remarks of the members of the Faculties, taken up for con- 
sideration by the Corporation, at a special meeting called for 
this purpose, and it was farther considered at several adjourned 
meetings in the course of the winter and spring of 1848. Sun- 
dry amendments were adopted by the Corporation ; and on the 
23d of May, 1848, the revised code was ordered to be printed, 
as amended at that and the preceding meetings of the Board. 
Farther amendments were adopted at the meeting of the Cor- 
poration on the 27th of May, and on the 10th of June last the 
following orders were passed : — 

" Voted, That the Revised Laws of the College as submitted 
at the last meeting be adopted by the Board, and it was ordered 
that the same be signed and certified by the Secretary. 

" Voted, that the President be requested to lay the laws as 
adopted before the Board of Overseers, that they may concur 
in the same if they see fit." 

Accordingly on the 20th of July the Laws as revised were 
laid before the Overseers, and by them referred to a committee. 
On the 17th of August, at an adjourned meeting of the Over- 
seers, the subject was farther considered; and on the 17th of 
September, at a special adjournment of the Board, the Over- 
seers concurred with the Corporation in the adoption of the 
Laws as revised, with the exception of one paragraph, which 
was indefinitely postponed. 

The doings of the Overseers having been reported to the 
Corporation on the 21st of September last, it was ordered by 
that Board, that the Revised Statutes and Laws as enacted by 
the Corporation and Overseers should be printed, under the 
direction of the President and Dr. Walker. 

The following edition has been accordingly prepared, and the 
Regulations of the College Faculty as recently amended have 
been subjoined, for the use of the Undergraduates. 

EDWARD EVERETT. 

Cambridge, 16th Nov., 1848. 



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LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY. 

CHAPTER I. 

General Organization and Government. 

1. It is declared by the Constitution of the State to be the 
duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of the 
Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of " The University at 
Cambridge." 

2. The Corporation and Overseers constitute the Govern- 
ment of the University, whose powers, rights, and duties are 
established by the act of the General Court of the Colony, of 
the year 1642, by the charter of 30th May, 1650, by the 
legislative acts supplementary thereto of various dates, both be- 
fore and after the Revolution, and by the Constitution of the 
Commonwealth. 

3. The Corporation consists of the President, five Fellows, 
and a Treasurer, respectively chosen, when a vacancy occurs, 
by the remaining members, subject to the concurrence of the 
Overseers. Their legal style is " The President and Fellows of 
Harvard College." 

4. It is the duty of the President, as a member of the Cor- 
poration, to call meetings of the Board, and to preside at the 
same ; to execute their votes and measures, unless otherwise 
provided for ; to report to the Corporation those measures of 
the College Faculty which require their concurrence and ap- 
probation ; and to act as the ordinary medium of communication 
between the Corporation and the Overseers. 

5. It is the duty of the Treasurer to have the custody of the 
property of the University ; to receive and duly to dispose of 
all moneys paid into the treasury ; to keep an account of all 
moneys received and expended, and to submit the same to the 
committees appointed for that purpose by the Corporation and 
the Overseers; and to make annually to the Overseers a gen- 
eral statement of the receipts and expenditures of the institution. 

6. The Treasurer gives bonds for the faithful performance of 
his duty, and is authorized to employ a clerk. 



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7. A member of the Corporation is appointed to act as Sec- 
retary of the Board, whose duty it is to keep the record of the 
proceedings, and to furnish attested copies of the same when 
required. 

8. The Board of Overseers consists of the Governor, Lieu- 
tenant-Governor, Executive Council, and Senate of the Com- 
monwealth, of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
and of the President of the University for the time being, and 
of fifteen clergymen and fifteen laymen, chosen by the whole 
body, as vacancies occur. 

9. His Excellency the Governor, or, in his absence, the Lieu- 
tenant-Governor, or the oldest executive or legislative member 
of the Board, presides at all meetings of the Overseers. A 
secretary is appointed by the Board, whose duty it is to keep 
the record of the proceedings, and to furnish attested copies of 
the same when required. 

10. It is the duty of the President to attend the meetings 
of the Board of Overseers ; to report the proceedings of the 
Corporation which require their concurrence; to give notice of 
their appointment, and of the days of examination and visitation, 
to the committees appointed by the Overseers for the purpose 
of visiting the University and of examining the students ; and 
to make a report to the Overseers, at their legislative session, of 
the general condition of the University. 

1 1 . The University consists of the Academical Department, 
and of the Divinity, Law, Medical, and Scientific Schools. 
Each is under the direction of its appropriate Faculty, of which 
the President is ex officio the head. 

12. The senior Professor of the Professional and Scientific 
Schools shall act as head of the Faculty of the same, and shall 
preside at its meetings and on its public occasions, unless the 
President shall be present and preside. A dean may also be 
appointed by the Faculty of each Professional School, if deemed 
expedient by the Corporation. 



CHAPTER II. 

The Faculty of the College. 

13. The President, the Professors not exempted by the 
tenure of their office, and the Tutors, have the immediate care 



and government of the Undergraduates, and are denominated the 
"College Faculty." 

14. The Faculty have authority to make all orders and regu- 
lations necessary to the performance of their duties. They 
have the general control and direction of the studies pursued 
in the College. They have cognizance of all offences com- 
mitted by Undergraduates, and it is their special duty to enforce 
the observance of all the laws and regulations for maintaining 
discipline, and promoting order, virtue, piety, and good learning, 
in the institution. 

15. In case of offences committed against the laws by stu- 
dents, not being Undergraduates, within the precincts of the 
College or in conjunction with Undergraduates, information of 
the same, when possessed by the College Faculty, shall be com- 
municated to the Faculty of the School to which the offender 
belongs. If any offence be committed by a resident graduate, 
not connected with either of the Schools, he shall be subject to 
the withdrawal of his privileges as a resident graduate, or such 
other punishment as the College Faculty may think proper. 

16. The College Faculty are authorized to license teachers of 
the polite accomplishments and of exercises conducive to health, 
and the students are not permitted to attend teachers not thus 
licensed. 

17. The Faculty have authority to regulate the dress of the 
Undergraduates, giving seasonable notice to them and to their 
parents or guardians of all prescribed alterations. 

18. The Faculty shall statedly meet on Monday evening at 
the office of the President, or at any other time or place that 
may be appointed by the President or the Faculty, to perform 
the duties incumbent upon them, to communicate and compare 
their opinions and information respecting the conduct and char- 
acter of the students and the state of the College, and to 
consider and suggest such measures as may tend to its improve- 
ment. 

19. The Professors and other officers, usually exempted from 
the duty of attending the meetings of the Faculty, shall, when 
requested by the President or by the Board, be associated with, 
and act for the time as members of, the Board. 

20. It being the design of the Government of the University 
that the Faculty should be invested with ample power to ad- 
minister the instruction and discipline of the College, they are 
desired and expected, at all times, to propose to the Corporation 

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any laws or measures which they may deem requisite or useful 
for the effectual discharge of their functions. 

21. It shall be the duty of the President to reside constant- 
ly in Cambridge ; to exercise a general superintendence over the 
concerns of the University; to see that the course of instruction 
and discipline is carried into effect; and to give all orders 
necessary to that end, and not inconsistent with the laws. 

22. It is the duty of the President to preside on public 
Academic days ; to address instruction and counsel to the stu- 
dents, as he shall find opportunity ; to preside at all meetings of 
the College Faculty at which he is present, and to call extra 
meetings when necessary ; to carry on the official correspondence 
of the Academical Department of the University ; to acquaint 
himself intimately with the state, interests, and wants of the 
whole institution ; to study its growth, the increase of its re- 
sources, the extension of instruction, and the better adaptation 
of it to the state of science and of society ; to inquire into the 
execution of laws ; and to see that no law falls silently into 
disuse. 

23. He is to exercise and perform all such other powers and 
duties as the President has been accustomed to exercise and 
to perform, and which are not by these statutes assigned to the 
Faculty or to some other officer of the University. 

24. The President is authorized to employ a private secre- 
tary, whose compensation shall be determined by the Corpora- 
tion. 

25. The Professors, unless specially exempted, are constant- 
ly to reside in Cambridge, having an apartment in the Univer- 
sity, or dwelling near it ; and the Tutors and Proctors are to 
reside in the College buildings, the rooms appropriated to them 
being assigned according to seniority. 

26. The Professors, Tutors, Librarian, and other officers, 
shall perform such services in their respective offices as have 
been or may be assigned to them by the Government of the 
University. 

27. The Faculty will appoint one of their number to act as 
the particular officer of each class, and to serve as the ordinary 
medium of communication between the student and the Faculty. 
Applications for leave of absence from prayers, when necessa- 
ry, will be made to him ; and all warnings and private admoni- 
tions ordered by the Faculty for neglect of duty or misconduct 
will be given by him. 

28. AH the officers of instruction and government in the Uni- 



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versity are chosen by the Corporation, with the concurrence of 
the Overseers, and are subject to removal for inadequate per- 
formance or neglect of duty, or misconduct. 

29. Before entering upon the duties of their offices, respect- 
ively, the Professors shall subscribe their names to the statutes 
of their professorships; and the Librarian, Tutors, and Proctors 
shall subscribe their names to an engagement to perform the 
duties of their several offices ; in books kept for those pur- 
poses by the President. 

30. The Proctors have the same authority as members of the 
Faculty in the immediate inspection and government of the Col- 
lege, and within the precincts of the University ; and any resist- 
ance or insult offered to them will be proceeded against as if 
offered to a member of the Faculty. 

31. Monitors are appointed, and their duties and compensa- 
tion fixed, by the Faculty. 

32. Presents to the officers of the University from any class 
or individuals in a class are prohibited ; and all officers are en- 
joined to decline their acceptance, if tendered. 

33. The Director of the Observatory, the Professor of Nat- 
ural Philosophy, the Rumford Professor, and the Librarian, 
being intrusted with valuable property belonging to the Univer- 
sity, shall respectively give a receipt for the same, in such form 
as the Corporation may direct. 

34. No person shall hold any executive office in the College 
who has the pastoral care of a church, the church of the Uni- 
versity excepted, or who holds any civil office except the office 
of justice of the peace ; and whoever shall accept such pastoral 
care, or any civil office, except that of justice of the peace, shall 
be considered as resigning his place, and the same shall be void, 
and a new election shall take place. 

35. One of the Faculty shall be appointed by the Corpora- 
tion to the office of Registrar, who shall receive a salary to be 
determined by the Corporation. He shall keep a record of the 
votes and orders passed by the College Faculty, give certified 
copies of the same when requisite, and perform such other duties, 
properly pertaining to the office of Registrar, as may be directed 
by the President or the Faculty. 



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CHAPTER III. 

Of Admission and Matriculation. 

36. No one shall be admitted to the College unless he have 
a good moral character, certified in writing by his preceptor, or 
some other suitable person. 

37. The qualifications for admission shall from time to time 
be determined by the Faculty, subject to the approbation of the 
Corporation. 

33. The examination of candidates for admission to the 
Freshman Class takes place in University Hall, beginning on 
Friday of Commencement week, at 6 o'clock, A. M., precisely, 
and shall be continued through that and the following day. 
No candidate will be examined unless it is intended that, if 
admitted, he shall immediately join his class. 

39. No person will be received for examination except at the 
commencement of a term, unless in extraordinary cases, at the 
discretion of the Faculty. 

40. Students may be admitted to advanced standing till the 
commencement of the Senior year, on such conditions as shall be 
from time to time prescribed by the Faculty. Each student thus 
admitted shall pay to the Steward a sum at the rate of forty-five 
dollars per annum, according to the standing to which he is ad- 
mitted. But any student who has been regularly graduated at 
another college, or dismissed in good standing, may be admitted 
to the class which he is found qualified on examination to enter, 
without any pecuniary consideration. The payment for ad- 
vanced standing is also remitted to students in indigent circum- 
stances. 

41. If it should appear, on examination, that the candidate, 
though believed, on the whole, to be capable of pursuing the 
studies of the class for which he is offered, is yet deficient in 
certain branches, he may be admitted on condition of making up 
the deficiency : and for this purpose he may be placed under a 
private instructer in the specified branches, at the expense of the 
student. 

42. If the candidate is found qualified, on examination, he 
is admitted to join the class on probation, and he shall not be 
matriculated as a member of the University in full standing, 
until after one term. 

43. The time of probation may be prolonged, at the discre- 



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tion of the Faculty, to a period not exceeding one year. If, 
during the time of his probation, a student shall fail to exhibit a 
satisfactory degree of diligence in study, disposition to good 
order, and obedience to law, or if he fail to comply with the 
conditions on which he may have been admitted, or if, upon any 
other ground, it be deemed by the Faculty not advisable that 
he should become a member of the University, his connection 
with it shall cease. 

44. No application for the admission of a person thus sepa- 
rated from the institution shall be received till after the interval 
of a year, and only upon the production of satisfactory testi- 
monials of good conduct during the whole time of his separation. 
If again accepted, on examination, he shall be put on probation, 
as before; and if, during this second probation, he shall be again 
separated from the University, his separation shall be final. 

45. Every person admitted upon examination must give a 
bond, with sureties, of which one, at least, is a resident citizen 
of Massachusetts, to the satisfaction of the Steward, in the sum 
of four hundred dollars, for the payment of all College dues, 
according to the laws and customs of the University. Every 
person admitted as a student shall, on the first day of the term, 
or as soon after as may be, exhibit to the President a certifi- 
cate from the Steward that a bond has been given as required. 
He shall then sign the following acknowledgment, viz. : — "I 
acknowledge, that, having been admitted to the University at 
Cambridge, I am subject to its laws." The President shall 
thereupon deliver him a printed copy of the College Laws. 

46. Members of the Professional and Scientific Schools, form- 
ing part of the University, shall sign a similar acknowledgment, 
in the presence of a member of the Faculty of the School to 
which the candidate is admitted, to be designated for the purpose. 

47. Graduates of the University, or of other collegiate insti- 
tutions, desirous of pursuing their studies at Cambridge without 
joining any of the Professional Schools, are permitted to do so, 
in the capacity of Resident Graduates. They are allowed to 
attend the public lectures given in the institution, and to enjoy 
the use of the library and the scientific collections, on the pay- 
ment of such fees as are or may be provided. They give the 
same bonds as Law Students for the payment of College dues, 
and are subject to the same laws and regulations, as far as they 
are applicable. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

Devotional Exercises, and the Observance of the Lord's Day. 

48. Divine service is performed in the College Chapel, in 
the forenoon and afternoon of the Lord's day. and on the day of 
the annual Fast, and all officers of instruction and government in 
the University, residing at Cambridge,, are expected to attend 
the same,, or the stated service of some other place of Christian 
worship ; there is also a daily devotional service in the College 
Chapel, morning and evening. 

49. The students of the College shall constantly, seasonablv, 
and with due reverence, attend the daily devotional exercises of 
the Chapel, morning and evening, and the religious exercises of 
the Chapel on the Lord's day, and the days of the annual Fast 
and of the Dudleian Lecture, and at such other times as their 
attendance may be required by the authority of the University. 

50. Every student is required on the Lord's day to abstain 
from all behaviour inconsistent with that sacred season. 

51. Any student may attend, on the Lord's day, the public 
service of any denomination of Christians having a place of wor- 
ship in Cambridge, on his application to the President in writ- 
ing, if of legal age, or, if a minor, on the application of his 
parent or guardian, stating that such worship is that in which 
he has been educated, or which, from conscientious motives, he 
is desirous of attending. Seats shall be provided at the ex- 
pense of the College. 

oQ. Permission is given, also, on similar application, to stu- 
dents whose residence is in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, to 
pass Sunday and to attend worship with their families at home. 
At the commencement of each term, the certificate of the parent 
or guardian is required, that such attendance has been regularly 
riven. 



CHAPTER V. 

Study Hours, Course of Instruction, and Attendance on Lit- 
crary Exercises. 

53. Study hours shall be regulated from time to time by the 
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54. In these hours the students are required to remain in 
their rooms, and not to leave them, except for the performance 
of some duty, or for some sufficient reason ; and to abstain, 
not only from all disorderly noises, but from all noises which 
may cause interruption to others, such as loud conversation, 
singing, playing on a musical instrument, or the like. 

55. Instruction is given in the Academical Department of the 
University in the following departments or schools, viz.: — 1. 
Latin; 2. Greek; 3. Hebrew and other Oriental Languages; 
4. Modern Languages; 5. English Grammar, Composition, 
Rhetoric, and Oratory; 6. Mathematics (Theoretical and 
Practical) ; 7. Natural Philosophy, including Astronomy ; 8. 
Chemistry, and the application of the Sciences to the Arts ; 
9. Natural History, including Mineralogy and Geology, Botany, 
and Zoology ; 10. Intellectual, Moral, and Political Philoso- 
phy ; 11. History, Political Economy, and the Constitution of 
the United States; 12. The Evidences of Natural and Re- 
vealed Religion. 

56. The Professors and other instructers in each department 
shall perform such duties as shall from time to time be assigned 
to them. The Professor, or senior instructer, where there is 
more than one, shall be deemed the head of the department, 
and generally responsible for the same ; and shall make a report 
relating to his department, with such observations and recom- 
mendations as to studies and discipline as may appear useful, 
semiannually to the President, to be submitted to the commit- 
tees appointed by the Overseers to visit the University. 

57. The lectures and exercises to be attended and performed 
by the students shall be arranged from time to time in the man- 
ner most favorable to their progress. The arrangement of the 
prescribed duties of the Professors and Tutors, and of the pre- 
scribed studies ; the times and modes of recitation ; the division 
of the students into sections; and, in general, the methods of in- 
struction, are committed to the Faculty, subject at all times to 
the control of the Corporation. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Of Wccldy and Monthly Returns, and the Scale of Merit. 

58. A monthly return is made to the Faculty by each in- 
structer of the marks allowed by him to the students respectively 






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from them, for all lessons not satisfactorily prepared, and for 
every negligence or act of misconduct at recitations or else- 
where, for which the Faculty shall deem such deduction a suf- 
ficient punishment. 

68. At the close of each term, a student who has failed to 
pursue any study to the satisfaction of the Faculty may be re- 
quired to remain in Cambridge in the vacation, till he has made 
up the deficiency, under an instructer to be approved by the 
President, or he may be allowed to pursue the study at home 
under an approved instructer, subject in either case to examina- 
tion before he can be permitted to rejoin his class. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Public Examinations, 

69. The several classes are examined, from time to time, by 
committees appointed by the Board of Overseers, from their own 
body, or from the community at large. 

70. To carry this design into effect, a day shall be appointed 
by the Faculty for the examination of each class in every 
branch of study pursued by them, at such times as the Faculty 
may deem it expedient. Seasonable notice of the appointed day 
shall be given by the President to each member of the examin- 
ing committees. 

71.rThe members of the examining committees will be re- 
questea to indicate the merit of each student's performance by a 
numerical scale ; and the mean of the marks given to each stu- 
dent by the members of the committee present, multiplied by 
ten, shall be entered on the scale to his credit. In like manner, 
the instructer, who will at all times attend the examination in 
his department, will mark the performance of each student as at 
the daily recitations, which mark, multiplied by ten, shall be en- 
tered to his credit on the scaled Unauthorized or unexcused 
absences from the public examination shall subject the student 
to such a deduction from the scale of merit, or to such other 
punishment, as the Faculty may prescribe. 

72. The committees of examination make report to the 
Overseers of the general condition of the department, and of the 
degree of thoroughness and exactness with which each branch of 
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CHAPTER VIII. 

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The .:.:~./.. rewards :-:.:" encouragements for literary ex- 
ertion and good conduct have dee:: established in the Cni- 

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73. T;;e President, consulting with the Professors and T. 

I, in the early part :: each Academic fear, make a present 
Dksfrorn the foundation of Edward Hopkins to such stu- 
dents of the Sophomore Class as shall have made meritorious 
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74. He will also, as far as the state ::' the fand admits, make 
a similar present, at the commer.: erne :: :: the Junior year, to 
those members of the Junior Class —':.: entered as Sophomores, 
and who have made meritorious progress in their studies during 
the Sophomore year ; and to such Juniors is, having failed :: 
receive a detur at the commencement of the Sophomore year, 
shall, during thai year, make decided improvement in scholars...: . 

2, Bowdoin Prizes. 

75. Prizes are ir.r.:i..y i" v the Faculty :: such Resi- 
dent Graduates and members of the Seni:: and Junior Classes 
as shall write the best and second-best dissertations :.: so ejects 
given oot for that purpose. The merit cd the dissertations shall 
be adjudge: by ::..:.. ::ees appointed for that purpose the 
Faculty, but not of their own number. 

76. P. zes in Latin versification will also annually be awarded 
the Faculty to the members of the several classes, the merit 

of the compositions to be adjudge: by the Latin department act- 
ing with the President on behalf of the Faculty. 

The foregoing prizes are paid from the income :: a fund be- 
queathed by James Bowdoin, " for the advancement 
and polite literature amoog the residents, as well Graduates as 
U; :ergraduates, of the University, in such way and manner as 
shall be best adapted to excite a spirit of emulation among such 
residents.' 3 

3. The B- /.-::-. Prize F 

77. Agreeably to the institution of the *'*'Bovlston Prizes for 
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will be held in University Hall, or in the First Church in Cam- 
bridge, a public exhibition and trial of the skill and improvement 
of the students of the University in elocution. The speakers 
are not to rehearse their own composition ; but to select pieces, 
in prose or verse, from English, Greek, or Latin authors, the se- 
lections to be approved by the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric 
and Oratory. The proportion in English is to be, at least, two 
out of three. The competitors must be Graduates of the year, 
or Undergraduates of one of the two next classes. The Corpo- 
ration will each year appoint five gentlemen, distinguished for 
their elocution, either at the bar, in the pulpit, or in the senate, 
who, with the Corporation, or a major part of them, will judge 
of the merits of the competitors, and award the prizes. They 
will assign five prizes ; two first prizes, namely, fifteen dollars 
or a gold medal of that value, to each of the two best speakers ; 
and three second prizes, namely, ten dollars or a gold medal of 
that value, to each of the three next best : Provided, that, if the 
judges shall be of opinion that none of the competitors have 
exhibited sufficient skill and improvement to be entitled to the 
first prizes, they may withhold them. At this exhibition, no 
prompting of the speakers will be allowed, and a failure of 
memory in any one will exclude him from being considered in 
the assignment of the prizes. 

4. Beneficiary Foundations and Monitor ships. 

78. In the selection of candidates for the various beneficiary 
foundations, such as the Saltonstall, Pennoyer, Alford, Hollis, 
and Stoughton Scholarships, the preference will be given to 
those who are of exemplary conduct and scholarship. 

79. The same preference will be given to meritorious students 
in the appointment of monitors ; and no student who is a College 
beneficiary shall remain such any longer than he shall continue 
exemplary for sobriety, diligence, and orderly conduct. 

5. Exhibitions. 

80. There are two public exhibitions each year ; namely, 
one at each of the semi-annual visitations of the committee of 
the Overseers. The exercises for the exhibitions are assigned by 
the Faculty to meritorious students of the two higher classes. 
They consist of original compositions for the Seniors, and of trans- 
lations into and from various languages for the Juniors. The it- 
fusal of a student to perform - the part assigned him, on either of 
these occasions or any act of indecorum in its performance, will 



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be regarded as a high offence. Every performer shall deliver 
to the President, one week at least before the exhibition, a fair 
copy of his performance. At such times as may be appointed 
by the Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, each performer shall 
rehearse his part. If any one shall make additions to what is 
contained in the copy delivered by him to the President, or other 
presiding officer, or shall speak any thing in public which he has 
been directed to omit, he shall suffer punishment according to 
the aggravation of the offence. 

6. Commencement and Academical Degrees. 

81. The Annual Commencement is on the third Wednesday 
in July, on which occasion the degree of Bachelor of Arts is 
publicly conferred in course on each member of the Senior 
Class in good standing. 

82. No student is recommended by the Faculty to the Govern- 
ment of the University for the Bachelor's or first degree, unless 
on the production of a certificate from the Steward that he has 
paid his College dues, and one from the Librarian that he is 
not a delinquent at the Library ; which certificates must be pro- 
duced on the day before the Commencement, at furthest, or the 
degree will not be conferred that year. 

83. A public literary exhibition takes place at the University 
on Commencement day, previous to conferring the degrees. 
The parts in the performances are assigned by the Faculty ; and 
no student, although otherwise qualified, will receive a degree 
who refuses or neglects to perform his part, or who performs it in 
an unbecoming manner. 

84. Each performer at the Commencement shall deliver a fair 
copy of his performance to the President or presiding officer, 
within such time as shall be prescribed previously to the Com- 
mencement. 

85. If any one shall make additions to what is contained in the 
copy delivered by him to the President or other presiding of- 
ficer, or shall utter any thing in public which he has been direct- 
ed to omit, he shall not be suffered to proceed, and shall be 
liable to loose his degree. 

86. Every candidate for a first degree shall wear a black dress 
and the usual black gown. 

87. The degree of Master of Arts is conferred in course on 
every Bachelor of Arts of three years' standing, on payment 
of the usual fee, who shall, in the interval, have sustained a 
eood moral character. 



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88. The degree of Bachelor of Laws and Doctor in Medi- 
cine shall be conferred on students in the Law and Medical 
Schools, respectively, who have fulfilled the conditions of the 
statutes of those Schools. 

89. Students in the Scientific School, not graduates of any 
collegiate institution, shall receive an appropriate certificate on 
leaving the School. 



CHAPTER IX. 

Discipline. 

90. It is earnestly desired by the Government and Fac- 
ulty of the University, that the students may be influenced to 
good conduct and diligence in study by higher motives than 
the fear of punishment ; and they mainly rely, for the suc- 
cess of the institution as a place of liberal education, on moral 
and religious principle, a sense of duty, and the generous 
feelings which belong to young men engaged in honorable pur- 
suits. When these motives fail, the Faculty will have recourse 
to friendly caution and warning, to private and public admoni- 
tion, — which last is accompanied with official notice to parents 
or guardians, — and, where the nature and circumstances of the 
case require it, to suspension, dismission, and expulsion. Fines 
shall only be imposed by vote of the Faculty. 

91 . All instances of the violation of the laws of the College, 
by disorderly conduct, by absence from stated exercises, or by 
the negligent performance of prescribed duties, will be recorded, 
and formally reported to the Faculty, at set times, and when- 
ever occasion requires ; and it is the duty of the Professors, Tu- 
tors, and all other College officers, at all times, to aid the Presi- 
dent in enforcing the laws and maintaining the discipline of the 
institution ; to send to their rooms all students assembled in an 
illegal and disorderly manner; to notice on the spot all violations 
of the law, when necessary ; and to lay before the Faculty all 
cases of misconduct requiring further censure. 

92. Whenever a student is found to be delinquent, he shall 
be liable to be deprived of any such indulgence as may be 
granted to exemplary students, with respect to absence, going 
out of town, and the like, — to have particular portions of study 
prescribed to him, to be performed during the vacation, or at other 
times, — and to forfeit all claims to the distinctions and rewards 



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provided for the meritorious ; and, if he persist in such delin- 
quency, he may be suspended, or subjected to higher punishment. 

93. By suspension for negligence, a student may be separat- 
ed from his class, as to those branches of study in which he is 
deficient, and placed under private instruction provided for the 
purpose in the city of Cambridge. 

94. Every person so suspended is required to perform exer- 
cises with the person or persons under whose care he is placed, 
at such times and in such manner as the Faculty shall direct ; 
and he is not permitted to leave the city of Cambridge during 
the time of his suspension, without special leave for some very 
urgent reason ; the same rules and restrictions being in force in 
vacation as in term time. And in no case shall he be restored 
to good standing, till he shall have given entire satisfaction for at 
least three months, by orderly conduct and diligent and faithful 
application to his studies. 

95. It is provided, however, that a student, suspended either 
for negligence, or for any violation of the laws, may, when the 
Faculty shall think it expedient, be removed from the College 
and the city of Cambridge, and placed under the care of a 
suitable person : and he shall be subject to restrictions and 
requisitions similar to those above mentioned, and be required 
to bring satisfactory testimonials of good conduct, and be ex- 
amined for restoration. 

96. Dismission is the separation of a student from the Col- 
lege for an indefinite or for a limited time, at the discretion of 
the Faculty ; and no dismissed student shall be readmitted to 
his own or any other class, without satisfactory testimonials 
of good conduct during his separation, and his appearing, on ex- 
amination, to be well qualified for such readmission. 

97.. Expulsion is the highest Academical censure, and is a 
final separation from the University. 

98. In all instances of offence against the laws and discipline 
of the College, or against good morals, to which no specific pen- 
alties are annexed in the laws, the Faculty may inflict such of 
the punishments before mentioned as they shall think just and 
requisite. 

99. When an offence is repeated, the Faculty will not ordi- 
narily have recourse to the same punishment as at first, but will 
proceed to inflict successively higher punishments, until the 
student is reclaimed, or separated from the College. 

100. When offences are committed by or in the presence 
of numbers, the Faculty may select for punishment those whom 



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they may believe, on reasonable grounds, to have been actors in 
or abettors of the same. 

101. In all cases of gross injuries or depredations upon the 
property of the University or others ; or of gross trespasses or 
injuries done to persons or property within the precincts of the 
University, or charged upon any of its members ; or whenever 
the nature and circumstances of the offence require, prosecution 
will be instituted before the established tribunals of the State. 

102. Whenever the Faculty are satisfied that a student is 
not fulfilling the purposes of his residence at the College, or 
that he is not likely to fulfil them, or that he is from any cause 
an unfit member thereof, it shall be their duty to dismiss 
him : Provided, however, that the Faculty may, whenever 
they see fit, acquaint the parent or guardian of such student 
with his character and conduct, and leave it to such parent or 
guardian to remove him. 



CHAPTER X. 

High Offences and Misdemeanours. 

103. High offences may be punished, at the discretion of the 
Faculty, with any of the College punishments. Misdemeanours 
are less offences, and may receive any censure below suspen- 
sion, or, if repeated or persisted in, some higher punishment. 

High offences are, — 

1. Irreverent, disorderly, or unseemly conduct in the chapel, 
or at church : — gross violations of the respect due to the Facul- 
ty or other officers of the University : — riotous and noisy be- 
haviour, to the disturbance of the University or of the inhabitants 
of Cambridge : — refusing or neglecting to attend, when sent for 
by the Faculty or any officer : — disobedience to the sentence of 
the Faculty, or a committee thereof, for any offence : — ob- 
structing or resisting the instructers or other officers in the dis- 
charge of their duties, or encouraging similar acts in others: — 
challenging, assaulting, or endeavouring to injure any student : — 
wilfully defacing or injuring the edifices of the University, or 
any furniture, apparatus, books, or other valuable property in 
any apartment thereof. 

2. Combinations to resist or disobey the Faculty or laws of 
the College. In such cases, if so many be actors or abettors as 
to render it inexpedient to punish all concerned, the Faculty 



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will select for punishment as many of the offenders as they may 
judge necessary to secure the end of punishment; and those 
who have been the most culpable, when known, shall be select- 
ed ; and also the two oldest of those concerned in the offence, 
if deemed expedient by the Faculty. 

3. Holding, or being present at, any class-meeting without 
special license from the President, or for any other purpose or 
purposes, or at any other time, than those expressed in the 
license, or at any times that shall interfere with any College 
exercise. 

4. Profane language: — intoxication: — indecency in lan- 
guage, dress, or behaviour : — dissoluteness, or other gross im- 
morality : — habitual extravagance, after due admonition : — 
playing at any game for money or other things of value : — as- 
sociating with any person under sentence of suspension, dismis- 
sion, or expulsion ; or with any other prohibited person ; or 
w 7 ith any person of known vice and dissoluteness: — any offence 
against the laws of the land, subjecting the offender to disgrace- 
ful punishment. 

5. Keeping any gun, pistol, gunpowder, or explosive ma- 
terial, or firing or using the same, in the city of Cambridge : 
— being concerned in any bonfire, fireworks, or unauthorized 
illuminations: — being an actor or spectator at any theatrical or 
operatic entertainment in term time: — making or being present 
at .any entertainment within the precincts of the University, at 
which intoxicating liquors of any kind are served : — going to 
any tavern or victualling-house in Cambridge for the purpose of 
eating or drinking, except in the presence of a parent, guardian, 
or Patron. 

Misdemeanours, or minor offences, are, — 

1. All such as are not enumerated as high offences. Among 
these are the following: — Keeping any dog, horse, or other 
animal, in the city of Cambridge, without leave first obtained 
from the Faculty: — playing at cards or dice: — disobedience 
to any of the rules and regulations of the College, and disre- 
spectful and unbecoming language or conduct, not amounting to 
a high offence. 

2. Attending, during term time, the instruction of any person 
who is not an officer of the University, without special permis- 
sion from the Faculty. 



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CHAPTER XI. 

Of Vacations, and Absence from College. 

104. The Academical year is divided into two terms of 
twenty weeks each, and two vacations of six weeks each. Com- 
mencement day is on the third Wednesday of July, and is fol- 
lowed by the first vacation. 

105. At the end of each vacation, the accustomed religious 
exercises of the Chapel shall commence on Thursday morning, 
and the literary exercises, at the hour indicated for that purpose 
in the printed tabular statement of studies; and all students com- 
ing back to College after a vacation, or an absence on leave, 
shall attend the first exercise for their class, whether devotional 
or literary, which takes place after their return. 

106. The students have leave to pass the annual Thanksgiv- 
ing with their friends, and for this purpose are allowed to be 
absent from College from Tuesday evening preceding to Sun- 
day evening following that day. A similar recess takes place in 
the course of the second term, beginning on the Tuesday pre- 
ceding the last Wednesday of May. 

107. There are no literary exercises in College on Christmas 
day, nor on the Fourth of July. 

103. With the foregoing exceptions, no student shall be 
allowed to be absent from College over night, in term time, 
without leave previously obtained of the President, or the officer 
designated for that purpose. 

109. Any student, who shall have received leave of ab- 
sence from any other member of the Faculty than the President, 
shall lodge the same in his office before leaving town ; where 
also shall be deposited, before dinner on Monday of each week, 
every certificate of excuse for absence, signed by a parent or 
guardian, or by the Patron, or by some friend residing in the 
vicinity of Cambridge. If the student be of legal age, his 
own written excuse is accepted, provided that, in all cases where 
a physician, surgeon, or dentist has been consulted, his certifi- 
cate shall be required, stating when the absence by him regard- 
ed as necessary begins and ends. 

110. Parents or guardians, requesting that students may have 
a temporary leave of absence, or furnishing written excuses on 
their return, will state particularly the cause of the absence ; 
and it is considered by the Government of the College that 

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only causes of an urgent and highly imperative nature justify 
the withdrawal of a student from his academic duties, and such 
only will be received as an adequate excuse. 

111. Meritorious students, whose circumstances require it, 
may, at the discretion of the Faculty, be absent for a limited 
time, not exceeding six weeks, for the purpose of keeping 
schools; the studies and exercises of their class, during the time 
of their absence, being afterwards performed by them, according 
to the rules the Faculty may establish. 

112. No student, who is not an inhabitant of the city of 
Cambridge, shall remain in Cambridge during any vacation 
without leave from the Faculty ; and all students remaining in 
Cambridge during the vacations shall be subject to the Jaws en- 
joining orderly conduct, and to those respecting the lodging and 
boarding houses of the students. 



CHAPTER XII. 

Rooms, and their Occupation. 

113. The Faculty will assign the rooms in the College, giving 
notice thereof in all cases to the Steward. 

114. Students shall statedly reside in the rooms assigned to 
them. No student shall change his room without leave of the 
President. No student shall suffer any one to lodge at his room 
without leave from one of the Faculty. 

115. In all cases of disorder in any room, the occupants shall 
be responsible. Any member of the Faculty, and any Proctor, 
is authorized to enter the room of a student, whenever in the 
opinion of such officer it is necessary to do so, in order to sup- 
press disorder; and, if the door be fastened within, he may use 
or cause to be used the force required to open it, and any 
damage thus accruing to the room shall be made good at the 
expense of the occupant or occupants. 

116. When two students occupy a room, each shall supply 
his proportion of furniture and fuel, during the whole time for 
which the room is assigned, whether he be present or absent. 

117. No student shall lodge or board out of the College, ex- 
cept at such houses as are approved by the Faculty, and with 
the approbation of a parent or guardian, if the student is under 
age ; and no houses will be so approved, except such as conform 
to the regulations the Faculty may establish. 



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118. Every student lodging or boarding out of College shall 
report to the President his place of boarding or lodging, and 
also every change in the same. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

Damage done to Buildings or Property of the University, 

119. Any student, who shall damage, destroy, or purloin prop- 
erty belonging to the University, shall make good the same ; 
and he may also be assessed, at the discretion of the Faculty, 
an amount not exceeding threefold the actual damage done, to be 
appropriated to reducing the general charge for damages on the 
students at large ; or he may suffer any of the statutory punish- 
ments, according to the nature and circumstances of the offence. 

120. If the perpetrator be not discovered, damage, when 
done to any inhabited room or study, shall be made good by the 
occupants; when done to an entry, by an equal assessment 
upon those inhabiting the entry ; when done to any public seat, 
table, or room, by an equal assessment upon those who occupy 
such seat, table, or room ; and when any other property be- 
longing to the University is damaged, or destroyed, or pur- 
loined, it shall be made good by an assessment on all the stu- 
dents. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

Of the Patron. 

121. Some gentleman of Cambridge, not of the Faculty, 
shall be appointed by the Corporation to be Patron of all stu- 
dents not of this Commonwealth, who belong to places more 
than one hundred miles distant from Cambridge, and whose 
parents or guardians desire to avail themselves of the regulation 
herein provided, and the Patron shall have charge of all the 
funds of such students. 

122. The parent or guardian of each student shall be inform- 
ed what are the necessary annual expenses included in the term 
bills; and he shall also be informed by the Patron what funds 
for the support and use of his son or ward must be remitted to 
him ; and the Patron is to have the whole control of the same, 
under the direction of the Faculty. 



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123. Every student subject to the Patron law is to be 
charged in his term bill at the rate of two and one half per cen- 
tum, as a compensation to the Patron for the disbursements 
made on his account. 

124. No such student is allowed to contract any debt with- 
out an order from the Patron, or from his parent or guardian. 

125. The written excuses provided for by Articles 109, 
110, of these laws, may be signed by the Patron for students 
placed under his care ; and in all cases of other students, not 
belonging to this State nor living within a hundred miles of 
Cambridge, by some friend of approved discretion, residing in 
the vicinity of the University. 



CHAPTER XV. 

Term Bills, Steward, and Superintendent of Buildings. 

126. The bills of all students resident at the University for 
College charges and expenses shall be made out twice a year, 
at the end of each term ; and lawful interest shall be paid upon 
every bill which is not discharged by the first Monday of the 
term next succeeding that for which the bill was issued. And 
if any student shall neglect to pay to the Steward, on or before 
the second day of every term, each term bill due by him, except 
the last, he shall not be permitted to continue at the University. 
If any student shall be absent for non-payment of a bill for more 
than one month after the beginning of the term when payment 
ought to have been made by this law, his connection with the 
University shall cease ; nor shall he be readmitted except on the 
usual conditions of readmission after a separation. 

127. The Steward has the general superintendence of the 
College edifices, and of the other buildings, and the real estate of 
the University, in the city of Cambridge. He is, from time to 
time, in connection with the Superintendent of Public Buildings, 
to examine the exterior and interior state of those edifices, and, 
with the approbation of the President, cause such repairs there- 
on, and on the inclosures of the University grounds, as may ap- 
pear necessary or proper, the amount on any building not to ex- 
ceed one hundred dollars. 

128. He will, at some convenient time before or after Com- 
mencement, in company with the Superintendent, examine the 
rooms inhabited by students, and estimate and assess any dam- 



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age done to any room during the year preceding, beyond the or- 
dinary and reasonable wear. In conjunction with the Superin- 
tendent he will cause every room, at the beginning of each year, 
to be put into decent and proper condition, prior to its being oc- 
cupied. For the customary repairs of the rooms, the occupants 
will apply to the officer resident in the entry, and, where there 
is no officer, to such person as may be designated. 

129. The Steward, being furnished with directions and docu- 
ments by the Faculty, shall make out the general term bill, 
which he shall enter upon the book of term bills ; and he shall 
deliver to each student his particular bill. 

130. The Steward shall engage proper servants and persons 
to perform labor for the University, such servants and persons 
to be approved by the President, and to be removable by him 
for any sufficient cause. The Steward shall also perform the 
services which he has been accustomed to perform, in relation to 
the accounts of the contractor for Commons and for dinners at 
the Commencement and on other occasions. No wine or other 
intoxicating drink, or tobacco, shall be served at any Com- 
mencement dinner, or any other public entertainment given by 
the Corporation. 

131. The Steward shall collect whatever is charged in the 
several term bills. He shall settle his account, at the end of 
each month, with the Treasurer of the University, and adjust 
his balance. 

132. It is the duty of the Superintendent of Public Build- 
ings to have the immediate charge of the edifices, grounds, and 
inclosures of the University; to superintend all repairs upon 
the same, and the erection of all new buildings, under the di- 
rection of the Steward ; to do such part of the work himself as 
is consistent with the proper direction of those employed by 
him ; and to aid the Steward in the general care and preservation 
of the College property. 

133. The Steward and Superintendent of Public Buildings 
shall receive a fixed salary, to be established by the Corpora- 
tion, which shall be in full for all services. 

134. The Steward is authorized to employ an assistant to aid 
him in the clerical business of his office, to whom the Corpora- 
tion may assign rooms for his residence in Graduates' Hall, in 
which case he shall also act as superintendent of that building, 
and exercise therein the same authority for the preservation of 
order, as is exercised by ' the Proctors in the other College 
buildings. 



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CHAPTER XVI. 

Laws and Regulations of the Public Library. 
1. Name. 

135. The Public Library of the University is kept in Gore 
Hall. It is for the common use of the whole University. Its 
privileges are also granted to persons, hereinafter specified, 
not connected with the University ; and it is accessible to the 
public, under special regulations and restrictions. 

136. The Boylston Medical Library is immediately con- 
nected with it, and is designed for the use of the Professors of 
the Medical School, and of the students while attending the 
Medical Lectures, and also for the members of the Medical 
Society of Massachusetts residing within ten miles of the 
University. 

2. Keepers. 

137. The care of the Public Library is committed to the 
Librarian, Assistants, and Janitor. 

138. The Librarian is chosen, like the other officers of the 
University, by the Corporation, with the concurrence of the 
Overseers ; he is to continue in office during their pleasure, 
and he shall be subject to removal for neglect of duty or mis- 
behaviour. 

139. On his election, he shall be furnished with an exact ac- 
count of the state of the Library, by his predecessor, or by a 
committee appointed by the Corporation to examine the Libra- 
ry, and draw up a written statement respecting it, wherein shall 
be specified the titles of all the missing books. 

140. He shall be held accountable for the safe keeping and 
good care of the books committed to his charge ; and if any 
damage come to the Library by his neglect or by his non-ob- 
servance of the laws and regulations of the Library, it shall be 
made good by him out of his salary, or otherwise. 

141. He shall superintend and direct the internal administra- 
tion of the Library, with the approbation of the Corporation ; 
and he shall regularly and faithfully perform the duties of his 
office. 

142. He shall ordinarily attend to the delivery and return 
of books borrowed from the Library, and keep a record of the 
same ; and he shall not be absent from the Library unnecessa- 
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143. It shall be his duty to acknowledge every donation to 
the Library by a letter of thanks, which shall be signed by the 
President on the part of the Corporation, and also by the Li- 
brarian, who shall then direct the same, and seal it with the 
College seal, and transmit it, at the charge of the Corporation, 
or otherwise, free of expense to the donor. And he shall 
have the management of all other official correspondence relat- 
ing to the Library. 

144. Annually, before the end of the second College term, 
the Librarian shall have the Library put in order for examina- 
tion, and shall require all the books to be returned, and have 
them cleaned and arranged in their proper places ; and he 
shall make a written report to the Examining Committee, and 
to the Corporation, of the state of the Library, of the books 
added by donation or otherwise, and of those which have been 
lost, since the last annual examination. 

145. He shall arrange and call the procession on Com- 
mencement days, if requested, and shall read the public invita- 
tion to the dinner. He shall have the care of the College 
charters and seal, and shall carry the same when a President 
is inaugurated. 

146. The Librarian, with the advice and consent of the 
Faculty, shall have authority to make such regulations, from 
time to time, respecting the use of the Library by the students, 
as he may deem expedient, subject to the approval of the 
Corporation. 

147. The Librarian shall have liberty to suspend from 
the privilege and use of the Library any student who shall vio- 
late any of the laws or regulations thereof, or be guilty of any 
flagrant breach of propriety ; but, in that case, he shall im- 
mediately make report of the same to the President, who may 
restore the privilege, or otherwise, as he may think proper. 

148. In case of the sickness, death, or resignation of the 
Librarian, the President shall appoint some person to take his 
place, until it be otherwise regularly filled. 

149. Whenever an assistant or clerk becomes necessary in 
the Library, a suitable person shall be appointed by the Cor- 
poration, and receive such compensation as shall be agreed 
upon, and continue in office during the pleasure of the Cor- 
poration. 

150. The Assistant shall perform such duties as may be 
necessary in the care and administration of the Library, under 
the direction of the Librarian, at such times as shall be pre- 



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viously determined by the Corporation. He shall also attend 
to the delivery and return of books in the absence of the Li- 
brarian, and at other times, when the Librarian is otherwise 
necessarily engaged. 

151. The Librarian, or his Assistant, or some person des- 
ignated to perform their duty by or with the consent of the 
President, shall remain in Cambridge during the vacations, to 
attend to the delivery and return of books at the regular times. 

152. The Janitor shall be appointed by the Steward ; and 
it shall be his duty to open and shut the doors, windows, and 
blinds of the Library, and to see that the same are properly 
secured at night. He shall make the fires, clean the books, 
and wait upon the Librarian, Assistant Librarian, students, and 
visitors. He shall perform all his duties punctually and faith- 
fully, to the satisfaction of the President and the Librarian ; 
and, in case of failure or other misdemeanour, he shall be sub- 
ject to immediate dismission. 

153. No person shall have a key to the Library, except the 
President, the Librarian, the Assistants, and the Janitor. 
They shall not let the keys go from their personal custody ; 
and no person shall be admitted into the Library, except in 
the presence of one of them. 

3. Arrangement of the Library. 

154. The Library shall be properly aired and ventilated in 
summer, and shall be made comfortably warm in winter, during 
Library hours. Great care shall be taken to preserve the 
books from dampness and from dust. No academical exercises 
shall be allowed in the Library. It shall never be lighted or 
illuminated ; nor shall an open lighted candle or lamp be car- 
ried or used in it ; excepting, only, when the Librarian is 
obliged to seal official letters with wax, he may, with proper 
precautions, use a lighted taper for that purpose. 

155. The books in the Library having been classified and 
arranged according to subjects, the same classification and ar- 
rangement shall be continued, with such modifications and im- 
provements as may be found practicable and convenient by the 
Librarian, with the approbation of the Corporation. 

156. All donations of books, on the same subject, to the 
amount of one thousand dollars, or upwards, shall be kept 
together in one place in the Library. 

157. In all cases, when books are given, or money for the 
purchase of books, the names of the donors shall be written in 



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the volumes thus given or purchased, and shall also be record- 
ed in a book to be kept for that purpose in the Library. 

158. The names of the donors of books to the amount of 
one thousand dollars, or upwards, shall be put upon the alcove 
containing such books, or in some other conspicuous place in 
the Library ; as, also, the names of donors which were dis- 
played in the Library before its removal from Harvard Hall. 

159. An engraved print of the College seal, with a blank 
space to insert the name of the donor and the date of recep- 
tion, shall be pasted in the beginning or end of every bound 
volume, and the particulars above specified shall be written 
thereon. The place or number of the alcove or shelf of 
every book shall be inserted in the book, before it is lent from 
the Library. 

160. The books most suitable for the use of the Under- 
graduates shall be separated from the rest, and shall be kept 
in the Librarian's room, where they shall be accessible to the 
students, and may be borrowed by them. 

161. The manuscripts, and costly books of prints, shall be 
kept in the cabinets, and shall not be borrowed from the Li- 
brary, without special permission of the Corporation. 

162. All the separate maps and charts shall be kept in suit- 
able cases, and shall be marked or numbered in such manner 
as to be easily found by the catalogue. 

4. Catalogues. 

163. The titles of all books, pamphlets, prints, and maps, 
added to the Library from time to time, shall be entered, 
chronologically, in a book or books made for the purpose ; 
wherein, also, shall be recorded the names of the several do- 
nors, the condition of the books as to binding, and other par- 
ticulars worthy of note. 

164. All periodical publications shall be recorded, as re- 
ceived, in a book prepared for the purpose. 

165. A written catalogue of the books on every shelf in 
each alcove, to be called the Alcove Catalogue, shall be placed 
therein, for the use of the Librarian and the Examining Com- 
mittee, in taking an account of the books, and to ascertain 
whether they are in their places. 

166. A catalogue of all the books in the Library, with the 
number of the alcove or shelf where each book is placed, 
written against the title thereof, shall be kept in the Library 
for common use. 



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167. A catalogue of the whole Library, or of the additions 
made to it, shall be arranged in such manner, and printed at 
such times, as the Corporation may direct ; and, for the ser- 
vice of preparing it, a suitable compensation shall be allowed. 

168. A catalogue of all the works which, from time to time, 
may be sent to be bound or repaired, shall be made and kept 
in the Library ; and there shall be sent to the binder a list of 
the back-titles of the books, and written directions in regard to 
the binding or repairs. 

5. Library Hours. 

169. In term time the Library shall be open on the first 
four secular days of the week, from 9 A. M. till 1 P. M., 
and from 2 till 4 P. M. ; and on Fridays, from 9 A. M. till 
1 P. M. ; excepting the first Friday of each term, Christmas 
day, the days of public Fast and Thanksgiving, and the Fridays 
following them, the Fourth of July, and the days of public 
Exhibitions and the Dudleian Lecture, during the exercises. 

170. In the vacations, the Library shall be open every 
Monday, from 9 in the morning till 1 P. M. 

171. All persons who wish to have access to the Library, 
or to bring their friends to see it, are expected to make their 
visits on the days and within the hours above named. 

6. Borrowers of Books. 

The following persons only shall have a right to borrow 
books from the Library : — 

172. The members of the Corporation and of the permanent 
Board of Overseers ; the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, 
President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, and the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mas- 
sachusetts ; the Officers of Instruction and Government of the 
University, and the College Steward ; Resident Graduates, 
and Resident Professional Students, giving bonds, with the con- 
sent of the Faculty ; Undergraduates of the College ; — 

173. The members of the Council, Senate, and House of 
Representatives, during the session of the General Court, on 
application made by a written order of the Secretary of the 
Commonwealth, the President of the Senate, or the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives ; — 

174. The members of the Examining Committees of the 
University, during the year for which they hold their appoint- 



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175. Former Officers of Instruction and Government of the 
University, residing in Cambridge ; — 

176. Benefactors to the Library to the amount of forty 
dollars, during their residence in Cambridge ; — 

177. Benefactors to the Library, residing in any other town 
in the Commonwealth, who have made a donation to the 
amount of two hundred dollars, — on application to the Cor- 
poration, and upon such conditions as may by the latter be re- 
quired ; — 

178. Regularly ordained clergymen, of all denominations, 
who have been educated at any public college or university, or 
who have received a degree at this University, living within 
ten miles of the Library, upon the same terms as the Over- 
seers ; — 

179. And other clergymen, within the same distance, not 
coming under the foregoing description, — upon application to 
the President, and at the discretion of the President or Cor- 
poration ; — 

180. Persons, not inhabitants of Cambridge, but having a 
temporary residence therein for the purpose of study, may bor- 
row books from the Library, with permission of the President, 
according to the conditions and regulations prescribed, — ap- 
plication to be made in writing to the Librarian. 

181. The Corporation may, for special reasons, grant the 
privilege of the Library to other persons than the foregoing. 

182. The Professors of the Medical School, students at- 
tending the Medical Lectures in Boston and in Cambridge, 
during the same, and all members of the Medical Society 
of Massachusetts who reside within ten miles of the Uni- 
versity, shall have a right to borrow books from the Boylston 
Medical Library, under the same rules and regulations as are 
made and provided for the use of the Public Library of the 
University. 

7. Special Laws. 

183. All persons, while in the Library, are to remain un- 
covered, and to refrain from loud conversation, and from other 
improprieties of speech and deportment. 

184. No person, except the Librarian and Assistants, shall 
go into any of the alcoves of the General Library, or take 
any book from the shelves therein, except under such special 
regulations as may hereafter be established. 

185. No person shall ordinarily be allowed to borrow from 



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the Library more than three volumes at the same time, except 
the Officers of Instruction and Government, and the Pastor of 
the First Church in Cambridge, each of whom shall be allowed 
to borrow six ; provided, moreover, that should they, at any 
time, have occasion for more than six books, they shall be 
allowed an additional number, to be returned at the end of six 
weeks. If any Resident Graduate or Professional Student rep- 
resent to the Librarian that he is engaged in the study of some 
particular subject, on account of which he has occasion for 
more books, the Librarian may, at his discretion, permit him 
to have an additional number. If, also, any Undergraduate 
should need additional books in preparing for a public exhibi- 
tion or for an exercise on Commencement day, the Librarian 
may permit him to have them, on the usual terms. 

186. No student shall keep any book belonging to the Li- 
brary more than six weeks ; nor any other person, more 
than three months. 

187. No book shall be borrowed from the Library, or re- 
turned to it, without the knowledge and presence of the Libra- 
rian or his Assistant, who shall take particular notice of the 
state of each book, when delivered out, and when returned. 
The Librarian shall keep a fair and regular account of the 
books borrowed and returned, under the name of each person, 
with the date when each book is borrowed, and a note of its 
place in the Library ; v/hich account shall be signed by the 
borrower, if present ; otherwise the book may be delivered to 
his written application. And it shall be the duty of every per- 
son to return the books he may have borrowed to the Libra- 
rian or to the Assistant, and to see the same regularly discharg- 
ed from his account. 

188. Persons sending for books are required to make, sign, 
and date a written order for them, and to insert therein the 
name of the author and the words of the title of each book, 
as given in the printed catalogue. 

189. If any student take a book or books from the Library 
without the knowledge and consent of the Librarian or the 
Assistant, or if he voluntarily mutilate any volume, he shall be 
liable to the penalty of dismission or expulsion from the Uni- 
versity ; and if any other person, having a right to use the 
Library, shall in like manner transgress the rules, he shall be 
suspended from the exercise of that right, during the pleasure 
of the Corporation. 

190. If any person desires to borrow a book which is lent 



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out of the Library, he may leave his name and the title of the 
book with the Librarian ; and, when the book shall be returned, 
the Librarian shall reserve it for the person so applying, pro- 
vided the latter call for it within a week, or, if he be an Un- 
dergraduate, at his next time of receiving books from the Li- 
brary. 

191. No person shall lend to any other a book which he 
has borrowed from the Library, nor let it go from under his 
personal custody. 

192. No student shall carry a book belonging to the Libra- 
ry out of town, without special leave from the President. 

193. No person shall write or mark in a book belonging to 
the Library, except the Librarian, or the President, or some 
person authorized to do so by them. 

194. When there are two or more copies of the same book, 
the least elegant or rare shall be lent first ; and the Librarian 
shall use his discretion in regard to the lending of rare or cost- 
ly works, which are not otherwise restricted. 

195. In term time, each member of the Senior and Junior 
Classes may borrow from the Library, of such books as are 
selected for their use, not more than three volumes at a time, 
twice a week ; and each student of the Sophomore and Fresh- 
man classes, not more than two volumes, once a week. They 
may also borrow books from the General Library, on applica- 
tion to the Librarian, and with the same restrictions. 

196. The members of the Theological, Law, and Scientific 
Schools, and the Resident Graduates, may borrow three vol- 
umes at a time, four times a week, in term time, on such days, 
and during such hours, as the Librarian, with the advice and 
consent of the President, shall appoint. 

197. The Undergraduates may apply for books and receive 
them, in term time, in the following order : — 

198. The Senior and Junior Sophisters, on Mondays and 
Thursdays ; the Sophomores, on Tuesdays ; and the Fresh- 
men, on Wednesdays ; — -during such hours as the Librarian, 
with the advice and consent of the Faculty, shall direct. 

199. The times for returning books, by the members of the 
Theological, Law, and Scientific Schools, by Resident Grad- 
uates, and by Undergraduates, shall be the same as those 
appointed for borrowing them. 

200. In the vacations, books may be borrowed and return- 
ed every Monday forenoon, by those students who have ob- 
tained a certificate of leave to remain in Cambridge during the 



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vacation ; as, also, by other persons than students who have a 
right to the use of the Library. 

201. Every student, before leaving College for an expected 
absence of more than one week, shall return the books he may 
have from the Library. 

202. All books borrowed by the students shall be returned 
on or before the Thursday immediately preceding the winter 
vacation. 

203. Every person, without exception, having books from 
the Library, shall return them, as soon, at the latest, as the 
fourth Wednesday before Commencement ; and all the books 
shall be retained in the Library, from and after said day, for 
the annual examination, till the end of the term. 

204. If any student shall fail to return all the books he has 
borrowed from the Library, within the times specified in the 
three foregoing sections, he shall be subject to a fine of 
25 cents per day for every volume unreturned. 

205. If any student shall fail to comply with the other laws 
regulating the borrowing and returning of books, and the lend- 
ing, or carrying them out of town, such student shall be re- 
ported to the President, and he shall be liable to the suspen- 
sion of his privilege in the Library, or to some other penalty, 
at the discretion of the President. 

206. If any person, other than a student, shall keep a 
book belonging to the Library more than three months, with- 
out renewing the same, he shall be subject to a fine of one 
dollar per week for every volume unreturned, after notice left 
at his usual place of residence or duly given by mail or other- 
wise ; and if he fail to return all the books he has borrowed 
from the Library, agreeably to the provisions made for the 
return of books for the annual examination, he shall be liable to 
a fine of twenty-five cents per day for every volume unreturn- 
ed, and to a suspension of his privilege until the same be paid. 

207. If any book borrowed from the Library be injured or 
defaced, by writing in it or otherwise, or be lost, the Librarian 
shall make immediate report of it to the President. And if 
the borrower be a student in either of the Schools, a Resident 
Graduate, or an Undergraduate, he shall either replace it im- 
mediately with one of equal value, or be charged with the cost 
of it in his term bill ; and, if such volume be a part of a set, 
the borrower shall be obliged to replace or pay for the whole 
set, or be charged as above ; and, until this be done, he shall 
not be allowed to borrow any other book. If any other per- 



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son shall injure, deface, or lose a book borrowed from the 
Library he shall make it good. 

208. No student shall be admitted to the first degree, nor 
any resident Bachelor to a second degree, till he has produced 
to the President a certificate from the Librarian, that he has 
returned in good order, or replaced, every book that he has 
borrowed ; or, in default thereof, has deposited with the Libra- 
rian double the value of it in money, or, if it be a part of a 
set, double the value of the whole set. And no student shall 
be permitted to take up his bond, or shall be discharged from 
his responsibilities by the Steward, till he has obtained from 
the Librarian, and exhibited to the Steward, a certificate as 
above described. 



INDEX. 



The figures indicate the number of the law referred to. 



Absence from exercises and neglect of duties, how punished, 67. 

■ ■ — from public examinations, how punished, 71. 

in term time, how restricted, 106 - 108. 



— leave for, how granted, 108, 109. 

— leave of, and excuse for, how granted, 110. 

duty of students returning after, 105. 

in term time, how granted, 108. 



Academical exercises not permitted in the Library, 154. 
Account, detailed, to be given by Patron to the Faculty, 121. 
Admission to advanced standing, 40. 

to College, 36. 

acknowledgment upon, 48. 

bond, 45. 

examination for, 38. 

matriculation, 42. 

on conditions, 41. 

on probation, 42. 

qualifications for, 37, 39. 

Admittance to full standing, when and how, 42. 

Alcove Catalogue, 165. 

Alford Foundation, 78. 

Animal, none to be kept without license, 103. 

Assaulting a student, how punished, 103. 

Assessments for damage done, when made, and in what manner, 119. 

Assistant Librarian, 149. 

duties of, 150. 

Associating with a person dismissed, or expelled, how punished, 103. 
Attendance on devotional exercises and religious services, 48-5'J 
on the instruction of any teacher not licensed, 103. 

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Bachelor of Arts, degree of. 51. 

of Laws, degree of. 55. 

Beneficiaries, how selected, 75. 7 ' 

Beneficiary foundations. 75. 

Boarding and lodging-houses to be approved by the Faculty, 117, 

out of College, how restricted and regulated, 117. 

Bond given on admission. 45. 

Bonfires, making of. prohibited, and how punished, 103. 

Books application for, at the Library, when to be made, 169. 

from the Library, on what days and hours to be applied for, 169. 

injured, defaced, or lost, to be reported to the Faculty, 189, '207. 

lost, how to be replaced. 207. 

most suitable for use of undergraduates. 160. 

not to be borrowed or returned without the knowledge of the Librari- 
an, or his Assistant, 157. 

not to be lent, 161, 190. 

not to be taken down from the shelves and alcoves without special per- 
mission of the Librarian, 154. 

persons allowed to borrow, 172, 

privilege of borrowing, when to be suspended, 172-152. 

what, may be borrowed, how many, and how to be obtained, 155. 

when to be returned, 201 - 2j4. 



Bowdoin Prize Dissertations. 75. 

Fund, how awarded.. 75, 76. 

Prizes for Latin verse, 76. 

Boylston Medical Library. 136, 152. 

Prize Declamation, 77. 

Fund, 77. 

how distributed. 77. 

Buildings and property, damage done to, how made good, 119. 



Candidates for first degree, how to be dressed, 56. 
Cards, playing at, prohibited. 103. 
Catalogue of Library, 163-165. 

, Alcove, 165. 

Challenging a student, how punished, 103. 
Charter and seal, care of, by the Librarian, 145. 
Christmas day, 107. 

Civil tribunals, when to be resorted to, 101. 
Class meetings, how regulated and restricted, 103. 

not to be held without license, 103. 

■ when punished as unlawful combinations, 103. 



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College Faculty, 13, 14, 20. 

meetings of, 18. 

Combinations to resist or disobey the laws, how punished, 103. 
Commencement day, 81. 

dinner, no intoxicating liquors or tobacco to be provided 

for, 130. 

. duties of those who have parts, 84. 

literary exercises, 83 - 86. 



Committees of Examination, how and when notified, 70. 
how to estimate the performances of the stu- 
dent, 71. 
Compensation to Patron, 121. 
Connection with the University, how closed, 43. 
Conversation not permitted in the Library, 186. 
Corporation, 3. 

Secretary of, 7. 

Crimes, when to be prosecuted before the civil tribunals, 101. 



D. 

Damage done to buildings or property, how punished, 119. 

done to utensils in the hall, how to be assessed, and on whom, 120. 

when assessed, how appropriated, 120. 

Debt, students not to incur, without an order from parent, guardian, or patron. 

124. 
Deductions on the scale, 67. 
Defacing books belonging to the Library, how punished, 189, 207. 

or injuring College edifices or property, how punished, 119. 

Degree, academical, duties of those who receive, 82. 

candidates for the first, at Commencement, how to be dressed, 86. 

not to be conferred on those who refuse to perform their parts, 83. 

Delinquent students, 92. 

Departments, or schools of instruction, 55. 

heads of, 56. 

Deturs, 73, 74. 

Devotional exercises, duty of students at, 48. 

Dice, playing at, prohibited, 103. 

Director of Observatory gives receipt for property, 33. 

Discipline, course of, in the University, 90. 

Dismission, for general unfitness, 102. 

its nature and consequences, 96. 

readmission of a dismissed student, 96. 

Disorderly conduct to be recorded and reported, 90. 

Dissoluteness, how punished, 103. 

Dog not to be kept, 103. 

Dress of candidates for first degree, 86. 



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Dress of students, how regulated, 17. 

■ of undergraduates, 17, 

Dudleian Lecture, 49. 



E. 



Examination, what is the student's duty when accepted upon, 45. 
Examinations, absences from, how punished, 71. 

Committees of, how and when notified, 70. 

report to Overseers, 72. 



of the public Library, 144, "203. 
public, 69. 

result of, entered on the scale, 71. 
time appointed by the Faculty for. 



Excuses, 109, 110. 

written, 125. 

Exercises at Exhibitions, copy of, to be handed to the President, 60. 

may be required to be performed in vacations, 68. 

students', how affected by vacations, 65. 

what, to be performed in case of absence, 92. 

Exhibitions. 50. 

performances at, 60. 

when and how exercises at them are assigned and regulated, 80. 

Expulsion, its nature and consequences, 97. 
Extravagance, habitual, how punished, 103. 



Faculty approve boarding-houses, 117. 

assign rooms, 113. 

give information to parents and guardians of conduct of students, 90, 92, 

how to punish combinations for resistance and disobedience, 103. 

how to punish offences which have no specific penalties, 96. 

license instructers, 16. 

■ may dismiss students not fulfilling, or likely to fulfil, purposes of resi- 
dence ;. or advise parent or guardian to remove them, 102. 
may require students to perform exercises in vacation, 6S. 

meetings of, 15. 

of the College, who constitute the. 13. 

regulate mode of granting leave, and receiving excuse for absences, 



110. 
— their authority, 16. 

when they make a selection for punishment, 103. 



Fast day, 46, 49. 



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Festive entertainment, making or being present at, when prohibited, and how 

punished, 103. 
Fine for not returning books to the Library, 266. 
Fines, 90. 

Fireworks, making of, prohibited, how punished, 103. 
Firing of a gun, pistol, or gunpowder, in Cambridge, prohibited, 103. 
Fourth of July, 107. 
Furniture and fuel of rooms, who are to find, 116. 



Gaming, how punished, 103. 
Gun, not to be kept, 103. 
Gunpowder, not to be kept, 103. 



H. 



Habitual extravagance, how punished, 103. 
Harvard College, President and Fellows of, 3. 
High offences, their nature and punishments, 103. 
Hollis Foundation, how distributed, 78. 
Hopkins Fund, how applied, 73. 
Horse, not to be kept without license, 103. 
Hours for resort to the Library, 169. 
of study, how established, 53, 54. 



I. 

Illuminations, unauthorized, prohibited, and how punished, 103. 

Immorality, how punished, 103. 

Improvement in scholarship, 74. 

Indecency in language, dress, or behaviour, how punished, 103. 

Injuries or trespasses, how punished, 101. 

Instructers not officers of the University, how licensed, 16. 

of the University not to receive presents, 32. 

Intoxication, how punished, 103. 

J. 

Janitor of the Library, 137, 152. 

K. 



Key of the Library, loo. 



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Language, profane, disrespectful, or unbecoming, how punished, 103. 
Laws of the Commonwealth, when resort to be had to them, 101. 

violation of, to be recorded and reported, 91. 

Leave of absence, duty of students returning after, 105. 

for a night in term time, how granted, 109. 

permission for, 108, 110. 

to keep school, 60, 111. 

Lectures and exercises, arrangement of, 57. 
Librarian, duties of, 26, 139, 143. 

gives receipt for property, 33. 

■ how chosen, 138. 

to keep account of books borrowed and returned, 142. 

to report to the Faculty any books defaced, injured, or lost, 144. 

to subscribe engagement, 29. 

Assistant, 149. 

Library, regulations of, 135, and the following sections. 

when open, and when may be closed, 169. 

Lighted candle or lamp not permitted in the Library, 154. 
Literary exercises, permission to make up, 59, 60. 

exertions, encouragements and rewards for, 73. 

Lord's day, behaviour on, 50. 

duty of students, 48, 49, 50. 

exercises of the, 48. 

students allowed to attend public worship at home, 52. 

students may attend the public worship of any denomination of 

Christians, on what conditions, 51. 



M. 

Manuscripts, 161. 

Maps and charts, how kept, 162. 

Master of Arts, degree of, 87. 

Matriculation, requisites for, 42. 

Merit, scale of, how made, 63. 

Misdemeanours, their nature and punishment, 103. 

when to be prosecuted before the civil tribunals, 101. 

Monitors, 31,79. 
Monthly returns, 58. 



N. 
Natural Philosophy, Professor of, to give receipt for property, 33. 



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o. 

Offences against the laws of the land, punishment of, 101. 

committed by or in the presence of numbers, 100. 

for which punishment is not specifically provided, 98. 

high, 103. 

repeated, how punished, 99. 

repetition of, 99. 

their nature and punishment, 98 - 103. 

the oldest concerned in, when to be selected for punishment, 103. 



Officer, particular, for each class, 27. 
Officers not to hold any other office, 34. 

of instruction and government, tenure of office, 28. 

■ to aid the President, 91. 

Overseers, 8. 

• committees appointed by, 69. 

presiding officer of, 9. 

Secretary of, 9. 



Parents or guardians to be informed of the students' conduct, 90. 
Patron, 121. 

laws relative to the, 121. 

regulations concerning, 122 - 124. 

Pennoyer Foundation, 78. 

Performances at Commencement, copies of, to be delivered to the President, 84. 

penalty for additions to, or for uttering what has been directed 

to be omitted, 85. 
Periodical publications, 164. 
Polite accomplishments, teachers of, 16. 
Prayers morning and evening, 48, 49. 

Presents not allowed to instructers or officers of the University, 32. 
President and Fellows of Harvard College, 3. 

a member of the Faculty, 13. 

authorized to appoint private secretary, 24. 

duties of the, 4, 10, 21 - 23. 

Prize Fund, Bowdoin, 75. 

Boylston, 77. 

Hopkins, 73. 

Probation prolonged, 43. 

what, and how long continued, 43, 44. 

when closed, and what its consequences, 43. 

when finally closed, 43. 

Proctors, their authority, 30. 

to reside in College buildings, 25. 



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Proctors to subscribe engagement, 29. 
Profane language, how punished, 103. 
Professional and Scientific Schools, members of, to sign acknowledgment on 

admission, 46. 
Professors, duties of, 26, 56. 

not members of the Faculty, 19. 

to make reports, 56. 

to subscribe the statutes of their professorship, 29. 

unless exempted to reside at Cambridge, 25. 

which of the, are of the Faculty, 25. 

Property, buildings, damage done to, how punished, 119. 

Prosecution before the tribunals of the State, in what case to be instituted, 101. 
Public worship at other places in Cambridge than the chapel, 51. 

permission to attend at home, 52. 

Punishments for gross trespasses, what, 101. 

how inflicted in cases where there are no specific penalties, 98. 



— their nature and course, 101. 



R. 

Readmission, 44. 
Recess in second term, 106. 

Refusing to attend when sent for by the Faculty or any officer, how pun- 
ished, 103. 
Registrar, duties and salary of, 35. 
Repetition of offences, how punished, 99. 
Resident Graduates, 47. 
Resisting instructers, how punished, 103. 
Return of books to the Library, when to be made, 203. 
Returns weekly and monthly, 58, 61, 62. 

Rewards and encouragements, how established for literary exercises, 73. 
Riotous behaviour, how punished, 103. 
Rooms, disorder in, occupants responsible for, 115. 

examination of, 128. 

fuel and furniture of, who to find, 116. 

in College, occupation of, 113. 

may be forcibly entered by College officers, 115. 

occupied by two students, 116. 

students' duty in respect of, 114. 

students not to change without leave, 114. 

to be assigned by the Faculty, 113. 

Rumford Professor gives receipt for property, 33. 



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Saltonstall Foundation, 78. 

Scale of merit, deductions from, 67. 

formation of, 63, 66. 

place of students admitted to advanced standing, 64. 

principles of the, 63-67. 

Scholarship, improvement in, 65. 

School, what students are allowed to keep, and on what terms, 111. 

Schools, Professional and Scientific, 11. 

Faculty and Dean of, 12. 

members of, to sign acknowledgment on 

admission, 46. 
Scientific School, certificate for students in, 89. 
Secretary of Corporation, 7. 

of Overseers, 9. 

Servants to be employed by Steward, 130. 
Steward, duties of, 127, 131. 

to employ an assistant, 134. 

Stoughton Foundation, 78. 

Students accepted on examination, their duties, 45. 

allowed to make up omitted exercises, 59. 

consequences of terminating probation, 43. 

damages assessed on, when and in what manner, 119. 

delinquency of, how punished, 92. 

dismissed, on what conditions may be restored, 96. 

doing damage to property or buildings, how punished, 119. 

dress of, how regulated, 17. 

exercises of, how affected by vacations, 68. 

failing to comply with the laws of the Library, how punished, 147. 

how and when they may obtain the use of the Library in vacation, 



200. 



if unfit member of the University, may be dismissed, 102. 

may attend any denomination of Christian worship, 51. 

may be required to remain at the University in vacation, until exer- 
cises in which they have failed be performed, 68. 

meritorious, may be allowed to keep school, 111. 

must lodge a certificate of leave of absence, when and where, 109. 

not likely to fulfil the purposes of his residence, to be dismissed, 102. 

not to be absent a night in term time, without leave, 108. 

not to board in any house, except such as are approved by the Fac- 

ulty,l!7. 

not to change rooms without leave, 114. 

not undergraduates, offences by, 15. 

probation of) how much it may be prolonged, 43. 

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Students residing in Cambridge, to have the use of the Library in vacation, 
200. 

responsible for disorder in their rooms, 115. 

■ returning after leave of absence, duty of, 105. 

■ suspended, how restored, and on what conditions, 93 - 95. 

their duty in respect of rooms and their occupation, 114. 

their duty in study hours, 54. 

their duty on return after any vacation, 105. 

■ their duty on the Lord's day, and at devotional exercises, 49. 

their performances, how estimated by committee of examination, 71. 

to have their distinctions and punishments reported to their parents 



or guardians, 90. 

what required of them and on what conditions, 47. 

what they are to abstain from, on the Lord's day, 49. 

when and how permitted to rejoin the University after probation is 

closed, 44. 

when they may apply for books, 169. 

when to be prosecuted before the civil tribunals, 101. 

who may remain in Cambridge during vacation, and how regulated, 



112. 

Study hours, duty of students in, 54. 

how established, 53. 

Superintendent of Public Buildings, 132. 

Suspension, its consequences and regulations, may be in Cambridge or some 
other town, 93-95. 



Tavern, going to, when prohibited, and how punished, 103. 
Teachers of polite accomplishments, how licensed, 16. 
Term bills, regulations concerning, 126, 130. 

time, commencement of, 105. 

Thanksgiving holidays, 106. 

Theatrical exhibitions, being present or an actor at, prohibited, and how pun- 
ished, 103. 
Treasurer, duties of, 5, 7. 

gives bonds, 7. 

Trespasses, aggravated, how punished, 103. 
Tutors, duties of, 26. 

members of the Faculty, 13. 

to reside in College buildings, 25. 

subscribe engagement, 29. 



University at Cambridge, 1, 11. 



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University, government of, 2. 

Faculty of the, who constitute, 13. 



V. 

Vacations, duty of students on their return after, 105. 

exercises may be required to be performed in, 68. 

— how the exercises of students are affected by them, 105. 

their number and length, 104. 

what students may, and what may not, remain in Cambridge dur- 
ing, 112. 
what students may have the use of Library in, 200. 



Victualling-house, going to, when and how punished, 103. 
Visitors to Library, 171. 



Weekly returns, 61 , 

Worship, public, where students may attend, on the Lord's day, 51, 



ORDERS AND REGULATIONS 



OF THE 



FACULTY OF HARVARD COLLEGE, 



PASSED 



IN CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORITY GIVEN BY 
THE LAWS OF THE COLLEGE. 



[See Laws, Chap. II. § 14.] 



CAMBRIDGE: 
M E T CALF AND COMPANY 

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 

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ORDERS AND REGULATIONS. 



§ I. OF THE DRESS OF THE STUDENTS. 

On Sabbath, Exhibition, Examination, and Commencement 
days, and on all other public occasions, each student, in public, 
shall wear a black coat, with buttons of the same color, and a 
black hat or cap. 

§ II. ABSENCES FROM PRAYERS AND SABBATH SERVICES. 

Absences from prayers and Sabbath services shall be re- 
ported at the President's office, by the respective monitors, 
every Monday morning. 

§111. ABSENCES FROM PRAYERS ON SATURDAY EVENING 

AND SUNDAY MORNING. 

Students having a standing leave of absence for the purpose 
of passing the Sabbath with their families in the neighbour- 
hood, are excused from prayers on Saturday evenings and 
Sunday mornings. 

Any student, who shall be absent from prayers on Satur- 
day evening, shall be excused, upon entering his name with 
such officer as shall be designated by the President, between 
the hours of eight and ten o'clock of that evening. 

§ IV. — OF UNEXCUSED ABSENCES. 

Whenever, in the course of any one term, any student's 
unexcused absences from prayers shall amount to sixteen, or 
from recitations or lectures to four, or from church (hall-days) 
to one, he shall be immediately reported to the Faculty, and 
shall receive a private admonition ; should his unexcused ab- 



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sences from prayers afterwards increase to thirty-two, or from 
recitations or lectures to eight, or from church to two, he shall 
receive a public admonition, and a letter shall be sent to his 
parent or guardian ; and should his unexcused absences from 
prayers afterwards increase to forty-eight, from recitations or 
lectures to twelve, or from church to three, he shall be suspend- 
ed or dismissed. And he shall receive the same course of 
censures, whenever, during any one term, all his unexcused 
absences shall subject him to a deduction from the scale, first, 
of thirty-two, — secondly, of sixty -four, — and thirdly, of nine- 
ty-six. The above provisions shall not apply to students on 
probation. 

§ V. OF UNIVERSITY HALL, AND MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 

The Chapel shall never be used for any declamation, reci- 
tation, or public meeting whatsoever, rehearsals excepted, 
without a special vote of the Faculty. 

University Hall shall be closed for the night immediately 
after evening Commons. 

No Society shall be deemed authorized and entitled to have 
any room assigned for its meetings, unless a copy of its consti- 
tution, and of all its rules and regulations, be deposited with 
the President. 

It shall also be the duty of every such authorized Society to 
cause to be left with the President of the University the names 
of its President and Secretary, within one week after their 
election ; and, when required, of all its members. 

To Societies complying with these conditions, the Faculty 
may assign a room, and cause it to be opened and lighted, on 
the evenings of their meetings, free of expense to such Soci- 
eties. Any damage done in the building, during the evening 
of any such meeting, if believed by the Faculty to have been 
occasioned by the meeting, or by those present at it, shall be 
assessed accordingly. 

§ VI. OF CLASS AND GENERAL MEETINGS. 

[See Laws, ch. x. § 3.] 

No class, or general, or other meeting of students. shall be 
called, without an application in writing of three students, and 
no more, expressing the purpose of such meeting ; nor other- 
wise than by a printed notice, signed by the President of the 






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University, expressing the time, the object, and place of such 
meeting ; and the three students applying for such meeting 
shall be held responsible for any proceedings at it contrary to 
the laws of the University, or other than for the object ex- 
pressed in such application. Nor shall any such authorized 
meeting be continued by adjournment. But for every meet- 
ing a new authority must be applied for and obtained. Every 
student attending any class, or general, or other meeting, oth- 
erwise called, will be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour. 

§ VII. — OF VIOLATIONS OF DECORUM. 

The following shall be consided violations of decorum : — 

Collecting in groups round the doors of the College build- 
ings, or in the yard. 

Shouting or talking from any window, or from the yard 
up to any window. 

Smoking in the streets of Cambridge, in the College yard, 
the public rooms, or the entries. 

Carrying a cane into the Chapel, recitation-rooms, Library, 
or any public room. 

Reading, or talking, or improper attitude, or being cov- 
ered within the Chapel or recitation-rooms. 

Entering the Chapel, at any religious service, after the toll- 
ing of the bell has ceased. 

Singing or playing upon any musical instrument, except be- 
tween 6 o'clock, P. M., and the study bell; and also on Sat- 
urdays after 10 o'clock, A. M. 

§ VIII. OF BONFIRES. 

In case of a bonfire, or unauthorized fireworks or illumina- 
tion, any students crying fire, — sounding an alarm, — leaving 
their rooms, — going to the fire, or being seen at it, — going 
into the College yard, — or assembling on account of such 
bonfire, — shall be deemed aiding and abetting such disorder, 
and punished accordingly. 

§ IX. OF PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. 

[See Laws, ch. xn. § 2.] 

At every public examination, each member of the Commit- 
tee will be requested to. graduate his estimate of the perform- 
ances by a scale, on which eight indicates the highest merit. 
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The average of the marks of the Committee will be multiplied 
by ten, and the product carried to the account of each student 
on the genera] scale. In like manner the marks of the instructer, 
graduated on a scale on which eight denotes the highest merit, 
will be multiplied by ten, and the product carried to the ac- 
count of the student on the general scale. 

§ X. ASSIGNMENT OF ROOMS. 

[See Laws, ch. xn.] 

No person not actually a member of the College shall be 
considered as having any claim in the distribution of rooms. 

§ XI. OF ESTIMATES OF MERIT. 

[See Laws, ch. vi. § 58.] 

In the monthly return made by each instructer to the Pres- 
ident, the merit of each performance shall be expressed by 
some number of a series, in which eight indicates the highest 
value for recitations ; — twenty-four for written exercises in 
Latin, Greek, or Mathematics ; — forty-eight for themes for 
Sophomores; — sixty for declamations; — seventy-two for fo- 
rensics ; — ninety-six for themes for Juniors and Seniors. 

§ XII. — ELECTIVE STUDIES. 

Four weeks at least before the close of the Second Term, 
every student shall make a written statement to the Faculty of 
the elective studies he wishes to pursue the following year ; 
accompanied, if he be under age, by the approval of his 
parent or guardian ; it being understood that the branches 
elected shall, in the opinion of the Faculty, be sufficient, with 
the prescribed studies, to occupy his time, and that the whole 
is subject to revision by the Faculty ; and the arrangement 
thereupon made shall be binding for one year. 

§ XIII. OF PERFORMANCES AT EXHIBITIONS AND COM- 
MENCEMENTS. 

[See Laws, ch. vin. § 83.] 

Performances shall be in readiness for rehearsal one fort- 
night before every Exhibition, and six days before Commence- 
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§ XIV. OP THE SCALE OF MERIT. 

[See Laws, ch. vi. § 63.] 

One fortnight before the end of each term, the bills for that 
term shall be closed, and a new series of bills for the ensuing 
term shall be opened. 

The scale of merit shall then be formed by the Faculty with 
reference to the term then closed, by bringing together the re- 
spective bills of attendance on prayers and Sabbath exercises, 
and the returns of the several instructers, on the following 
principles : — 

The merit of each individual shall be ascertained by adding 
together the numbers in the returns of each instructer and of 
the public examining committees : — 

From the aggregate of these numbers shall be deducted, for 
all unexcused delinquencies, as follows : — 

Every absence from daily prayers, .... 2 
Every absence from public worship for every half-day, 32 
Every tardiness at any recitation, lecture, or other exercise, 4 
Every absence from recitation ..... 8 
" u from a declamation .... 8 

" " from themes or forensics, ... 8 
For every unexcused omission of a theme or forensic, of 
a Greek, Latin, or Mathematical written exercise, of a 
declamation, or of reading a forensic, a deduction shall 
be made of the highest number of marks to which that 
exercise is entitled. 
Any student who shall come to a recitation unprepared 
shall be liable to a deduction of .... 8 

Every instructer may apportion his notation of those exer- 
cises, of which eight is indicative of the highest value, in such 
a manner as he shall judge most effective ; provided that the 
aggregate of his marks shall never exceed what all the said ex- 
ercises would be entitled to ; and that the principle of appor- 
tionment adopted shall be applicable to the whole Class attend- 
ing him. 

Every absence from an exercise by combination will be 
deemed and punished as a high offence. 

Misconduct at recitations, lectures, or other exercises, not 
amounting to a high offence, shall be marked at the discretion 
of the instructer, not exceeding thirty-tivo, and deduction be 
made accordingly. 



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General misconduct will, at the discretion of the Faculty, be 
made the ground of deduction. , 

§ XV. STUDY HOURS. 

Study hours shall be from the commencement of the first 
recitation in the morning, till one o'clock, P. M. ; from three 
o'clock, P. M., till evening prayers ; and after the study bell 
in the evening. 

§ XVI. OF THE PARIETAL COMMITTEE, AND ITS DUTIES. 

The officers resident within the College walls shall consti- 
tute a permanent standing committee, to be called the Parietal 
Committee. This Committee shall have particular cognizance 
of all tardinesses at prayers and Sabbath services, and of all 
offences against good order and decorum. 

Rules to be observed by the Parietal Committee. 
I. Of Tardinesses, 

1. The Committee shall keep a record of all tardinesses at 
prayers and Sabbath services ; and this shall be communicated 
to the Faculty at the end of every term ; who will, for every 
instance, deduct eight from the rank of each student so re- 
ported. 

2. Whenever the number of tardinesses of any one indi- 
vidual shall be found to amount to five in a term, the fact shall 
be immediately reported to the Faculty for their action there- 
upon. 

II. Of Offences against Good Order and Decorum. 

1. Deduction from the rank of a student, not exceeding 
thirty-two for one offence, shall be made by the Committee, 
whenever the nature or circumstances of the offence shall in 
their judgment require it. 

2. In case any offence, either from its character or its fre- 
quency, shall seem to the Committee to require a higher pun- 
ishment than deduction, it shall be their duty to report the 
same to the Faculty forthwith. 



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